MAPW Program

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

The purpose of the program is to help students:

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Process Work approach to human experience

• Recognize, appreciate and explore all aspects of experience – conscious or consensual, unconscious or dream-like, and subtle or ineffable

• Use self-awareness techniques to work with one’s own difficult states, moods, biases, and emotions

• Understand, appreciate and relate to the client’s social, cultural and historical context

• Engage with the client’s less known, ambiguous, or marginalized experiences and make that knowledge available as a resource or intervention

• Recognize, follow and engage with a client’s feedback, both verbal and non-verbal

• Recognize the inherent wisdom of the client’s experience as the foundation of the counseling and facilitation process

• Relate to peers and other professionals and to see ones work in the context of a larger system

• Value all cultural and communication styles, and points of view, regardless of the facilitator’s, group’s or predominant cultural values

• View conflict, personal difficulties and social challenges as resources for personal growth and change

• Guide the client in both cognitive and experiential dimensions of his or her process through a variety of modalities including visual, auditory, proprioceptive and movement methods

• View experiences, people and attitudes, which are outside of one’s identity, as aspects of oneself

• Demonstrate awareness of ethical professional conduct